An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday fixed March 11 for the arraignment of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and three others over alleged forgery and mortgage fraud. Other defendants in the case are Okogun Polycarp, Batik Line International Ltd, and Bolaji Adebajo. Justice Ismail Ijelu, adjourned the arraignment due...
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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has charged the newly appointed Surveyor-General of the state to work professionally, diligently and with integrity to ensure effective service delivery. Fubara made the remark while swearing in Mr Peter Ogolo, the new Surveyor-General of the State and Permanent Secretary of the Survey Department...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 47-year-old shopkeeper, Seydou Garuba, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against Garuba. He stated that the survivor’s evidence corroborated...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has urged security agencies to replicate the success recorded in Ondo State Governorship elections in the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship poll scheduled for November 8, 2025. Speaking at the first quarterly meeting...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday presented the First class staff of office to the newly appointed Shehu of Bama, Dr. Umar Kyari Umar El-Kanemi, in a grand ceremony held at the Central Stadium in Bama Local Government Area of the state. The...
U.S. President Donald Trump has given Palestinian militant organisation Hamas an ultimatum to release all remaining hostages being held in Gaza or face harsh consequences. Trump spoke out in favour of terminating the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which went into effect on Jan. 19, for an initial...
U.S. President Donald Trump has declared war on paper straws and is pushing for a return to plastic. Trump has signed an order in the White House stating that U.S. government departments and agencies should no longer procure and use paper straws in the future. His team is also...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced tariffs of 25per cent on all steel and aluminium imports into the United States (U.S.). The Republican signed orders to this effect at the White House and said that the tariffs would apply without exceptions and to imports from all countries. “This is...
A female teacher in her 40s on Tuesday stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon. Authorities also that after the teacher stabbed the minor she inflicted wounds on herself. Earlier, police found the two with stab wounds on the second...
Veteran Nollywood stars, Richard Mofe-Damijo (RMD), Francis Duru and the sensational R&B music group, Styl-Plus are set to thrill Abuja residents at the ” The Love Story” concert on Feb 14, its organisers have said. Patrick Otoro, organiser of the romantic show, stated this in an interview with the...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Arab states reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s widely condemned plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza and take control of the enclave. During a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, Abdelatty emphasised the need to expedite Gaza’s reconstruction while Palestinians...
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has paused the development of a plan to resolve the Ukraine conflict in order to take into account the opinion of European allies. The Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has promised to hold individual talks...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said it is currently carrying out restoration work on a vandalized underground transmission line located near the Millennium Park in Abuja. The Company’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu through the state Microfinance and Enterprise Development Agency (MEDA) in partnership with the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on digital and creative economy have trained over 100 person in Cross River State out of ten...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Commissioner for Social Welfare and Community Development, Mrs. Margaret Ene-Ita has cautioned persons whose parents and relatives have become older not to abandon them because of old age. She spoke when she and five management personnel in her ministry attended the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The founder and spiritual leader of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu has reprimanded church leaders and spiritual activists who charge their followers or those who seek spiritual services from them. He cautioned that it is very wrong for...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has said it is worrisome that in spite of concerted efforts, allegations of corruption, delays in justice dispensation and bias still persists in the judiciary. Justice Kekere-Ekun said this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open the 2025 hybrid refresher...
The Federal Government, on Monday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a bail application filed by four suspects linked to notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji. Mr David Kaswe, lawyer who appeared for the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), told Justice Emeka Nwite not to grant the...
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on Monday urged INEC to recognise its newly elected executive officers that emerged from the party’s elective convention held in Lagos. This is contained in a communique signed by Mr Mohammed Abdullahi,Vice-Chairman, NNPP Convention Committee in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the increasing number of polio cases in Kano State. UNICEF’s Kano Chief of Field Office, Mr Rahma Farah, raised the alarm during an orientation for 44 Local Government Area (LGA) chairmen and district heads on polio eradication, routine immunisation,...